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The electoral college is due to meet on Monday to choose Joe Biden formally as the next US president, despite the current president’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election results. President-elect Joe Biden speaking in Delaware earlier this month   –   Copyright  AP Photo The electoral college is due to meet on Monday to choose Joe Biden formally as […]

 An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah has been hit by an unidentified “external source” that caused a fire and an explosion, a shipping company said, suggesting another vessel has come under attack off the kingdom amid its years-long war in Yemen. An explosion rocked a ship off Saudi Arabia’s port city […]

Ethiopia has issued arrest warrants for more than 40 former senior military officers in connection with the conflict in the restive northern Tigray region. This is according to a statement issued by the Federal Police Commission on Friday night. Ethiopian soldiers rest at the 5th Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Army in […]

Shops selling non-essential goods, hair-salons and schools in Germany will close from Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, to halt an “exponential growth” in new coronavirus infections in Europe’s biggest economy. The partial lockdown will apply until January 10th, with companies also urged to allow employees to work from home or offer extended company holidays, under […]

North Korea is currently planning an event involving soldiers and civilians in the capital Pyongyang to glorify the Eighth Party Congress in January, Daily NK has learned. Soldiers have already begun rehearsing for the event, while Pyongyang residents and university students will reportedly begin rehearsing from the middle of December. A source in Pyongyang told […]

Thousands of red-hatted protesters filled Washington streets Saturday to support Donald Trump‘s baseless claims of election fraud, undeterred by the US Supreme Court‘s rejection of what may have been his last chance to overturn the results. Protesters gather in Washington in support of President Donald Trump on December 12, 2020; they insisted, without evidence, that he had lost the […]

Christmas shoppers have been out in force across the country as Covid infections rise (Pictures: PA/North News and Pictures) High streets have been flooded with shoppers today as people headed out to buy Christmas presents despite fears about rising coronavirus infection rates. With just two weekends left between now and Christmas Day, there were crowds […]

Xi Jinping(China)and  Lien Chan. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday met here a delegation of people from various sectors in Taiwan, led by former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party Lien Chan. The pursuit of a just cause and people’s common aspirations is unstoppable, said Xi during […]

Jibril Ibrahim is president of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society. (Jibril Ibrahim) nity are calling on Premier Jason Kenney and Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson to more forcefully condemn the hate-motivated attack on two women, wearing hijabs, in a south Edmonton mall parking lot earlier this week. Both Kenney and Iveson condemned the attack on Twitter but Jibril […]

Communications Director Fahrettin Altun (AA Photo)  Ankara has condemned the aggressive stance of Iran toward President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey over the recitation of a poem during a ceremony in Azerbaijan, a statement released Saturday by Communications Director Fahrettin Altun read, stressing that the meaning of the poem has been taken out of context. […]